BCA for beginners
The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis professional development workshop, “ Benefit-Cost Analysis for Beginners” will be held on April 28, 2023. This promises to be a terrific workshop! The instructors…
More efficient electricity use reduces household poverty – EfD Ghana study
A one percent improvement in electricity consumption efficiency by households reduces multidimensional poverty by about 9 percent while reducing consumption poverty by about 10 percent – these are…
Forestry – brief actionable research agenda
EfD Authors:
Forests offer the potential for implementing nature-based solutions that provide simultaneously economic, social, and environmental benefits. Forests and Land-use are part of a larger initiative to identify the most promising research issues to support an actionable low-carbon transition in the Global South.
Enabling Policy Environment - brief actionable research agenda
EfD Authors:
Identifying policies and the corresponding actors, processes, and methods that enable the creation of a policy environment are important to put climate and low-carbon energy transition policies in motion.
Enabling Policy Environment is part of a larger initiative to identify the most promising research issues to support an actionable low-carbon transition in the Global South.
Government officials were trained in cost-benefit analysis for environmental impact assessment
EfD Tanzania researchers conducted a workshop for National Environment Management Council (NEMC) officials to sharpen their skills in cost-benefit analysis (CBA) which helps them determine whether a…
How to make a low-carbon transition fair and avoid unemployment
A shift to a low-carbon economy is urgent. Such a shift can create new jobs for people but may lead to unemployment and poverty for others. EfD Kenya organized a high-level stakeholder workshop on…
Call for Papers - Special Issue on 'Macro-financial Policy at the Crossroad: Addressing Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Environmental Degradation'
Eurasian Economic Review A Journal in Applied Macroeconomics and Finance The changing climate, loss of biodiversity, and environmental risks threaten the sustainability of economic systems worldwide…
EAERE Event | Gender and its Representation in the Professional World | 27 April 2023, Online
Gender and its Representation in the Professional World 27 April 2023, Online, 3:00 PM CEST REGISTER HERE The EAERE DEI executive committee invites you to attend an interactive session on Gender so as…
EfD seminars highlighted interesting research results and ongoing projects
EfD Central America arranged two EfD Seminars to share research processes by researchers from North Dakota State University and the University of Idaho. These two events signaled the return of the EfD…
EfD Vietnam organized discussion for a green transition
Achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on limiting climate change, and reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by around 2050 requires scientific evidence to support policy-making. Strategies…